Plane crashes with 150 on board crashes in Indian Ocean (Lead)
June 30th, 2009 - 9:29 am ICT by IANSSana’a (Yemen), June 30 (DPA) A Yemen Airways passenger plane with 150 people on board crashed in the Indian Ocean island of Comoros early Tuesday, a company official confirmed.
“The plane crashed in the sea 15 minutes ahead of the scheduled time of arrival in Moroni,” the official told DPA.
“We have no information whether there are any survivors,” he said. The 150 people on board Yemen Airways flight IY 628 included passengers and crew.
The Airbus 310 plane was flying from Yemen capital Sana’a to Comoros. A company official said that most of the passengers were expatriates from Comoros who were in transit from Paris.
Comoros is located off the eastern coast of Africa between Madagascar and Mozambique.
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